Utah school tweaks yearbook photos to show less skin

In a Utah high school, it’s the students who are complaining about technology — and the way administration is using it.

Female students at a high school in Wasatch County, located east of Provo, were surprised to discover their yearbook photos had been altered, mainly to show less skin.

There was no consistency in the way the changes were done however. As sophomore Rachel Russell told Fox 13, “I feel like they put names in a hat and pick and choose who. There were plenty of girls that were wearing thicker tank tops, and half of them got edited and half of them didn’t.”

The students in the edited images did violate the school’s strict dress code, and a district official told Fox 13 there was a clear warning that the photos may be changed.

“We only apologize in the sense that we want to be more consistent with what we`re trying to do in that sense we can help kids better prepare for their future by knowing how to dress appropriately for things,” Terry E. Shoemaker, superintendent of schools for the Wasatch County School District, told the TV station.

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